Accelerated Relationships: The USSR and the Rise of Megascience in Cold War High-Energy Physics, 1956–1991 | Roman Khandozhko, Tübingen

Explosive Math: Soviet Mathematicians, the Bomb, and the International Community during the Cold War | Slava Gerovitch, Cambridge, MA

Chair: Carmen Scheide, Bern

Panel III:

15:45–17:30 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: Mutual Perceptions, Interdependencies, Cooperative Efforts, and Transfers between the Space Programs of the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1970s | Darina Volf, Munich

Soviet Science at the Edge of Nuclear Apocalypse Performing “Star Wars” on the International Stage | Asif Siddiqi, New York

Chair: Julia Richers, Bern

Friday, February 1

Panel IV: 09:45–12:15

To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt. Nuclear-Powered Water Desalination in East, West and South (1961 to Present) | Stefan Guth, Tübingen

Trust, Passion and Compromise: ITER and the History of Nuclear Fusion Diplomacy | Anna Åberg, Göteborg

The first conference of the NucTechPol project took place in Tübingen from March 22–23, 2018. Bringing together historians of the Soviet Union, international relations and science and technology, it aimed to review Soviet nuclear technopolitics in a long-term perspective and to place them in an international context.